P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.

A country is more than an economy. We're a civic society.

Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society.

I believe we can make progress on bringing true equality and fairness back to our government if we continue to work together and make our voices heard.

People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.

It is our lack of will that lies behind the continued denial of justice to Jean McConville. Yet there is something that we can do now for her and for ourselves before our silence turns us from spectators into passive accomplices. We can remember her.

Civil society begins with the family.

Knowing that there is a community of people on every corner of this planet that believes in justice, that is willing to sacrifice, and that is willing to take a stand is the most heartening thing.

Rich or poor, we all need organizations that can represent us; we all need modes of collective action when individual action does not yield justice.

A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right.

I want to appeal to all people to come together across the country and stand against this politics of corruption.

Collective action remains the best way of renewing the march towards the great trinity of liberty, equality, and solidarity.

I can't speak for the rest, but I think the little India all of us carry in our hearts should be good enough for us individually to take a step to help ensure that same freedom and justice that our constitution guarantees is given to all.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it's gonna happen.

To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.

The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery.

People united in pursuit of a righteous cause are unstoppable

The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favour of an individual. This implies nothing as to the ethical value of such a law.

We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

Last evening attended Croghan Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows. Election of officers. Chosen Noble Grand. These social organizations have a number of good results. All who attend are educated in self-government. This in a marked way. They bind society together. The well-to-do and the poor should be brought together as much as possible. The separation into classes--castes--is our danger. It is the danger of all civilizations.

At the head of any new undertaking where in France you would find the government, or in England some great lord, in the United States you are sure to find an association.

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.